AMLO's Final Day: Emotional Farewell at Last Mañanera

AMLO held his final daily mañanera on September 30, 2024, visibly emotional, shedding tears as supporters serenaded him. He signed two laws: one elevating indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples as subjects of public law. He left office with a 68% approval rating — the highest final-month approval of any Mexican president since Ernesto Zedillo (2000). He formally handed power to Claudia Sheinbaum at midnight, then retired to his ranch in Palenque, Chiapas. The mañanera — 1,833 total in six years — had been an unprecedented daily press event, though repeatedly used to attack critics and journalists.